Canción hard rock antibélica. Cuenta la historia de alguien que se enrola como soldado de forma voluntaria para combatir en una guerra. En un temor constante por su vida, sufre en carne propia la crueldad de la batalla. Al final de la misma resulta herido de muerte, pues no tiene la suficiente sangre fría como para matar a su enemigo mirándolo cara a cara, pero su enemigo sí. En sus últimos momentos ya no siente más dolor pero escucha a los pájaros cantar y tiene la sensación como de que alguien cuida de él. El estribillo con voces femeninas de fondo "¿Por qué te uniste a esto?" (Why did you join?") cala muy hondo…
Je chantais: "La la la ...",
a soldier fully armed and marching in the night.
The sun no longer shining, the birds had stopped to sing,
remembered at that moment: You shall love your enemies.
Dreaming still of justice or what I thought it means,
in line with all those heroes for a nation's idleness.
My heart without emotions I thought I had no fear.
Oh God, those clouds of evil, and the battlefield burns.
In the early morning rain the atrocity began:
The whole earth was exploding, and oceans of blood changed
the trembling ground into red,
hearing the wounded's endless cries for mercy and release.
Why did you, why did you it? Why did you join?
Je chantais: "La la la",
through an awful wall of fire I faced my enemy.
I looked into his eyes, but, oh God! I couldn't shoot.
His blood was so much colder, that's why his trigger moved.
I smiled at him, my eyes, they didn't lie.
But he bowed his head in shame, my soul was crying: "Why?",
when the bullet found me. Pourquoi, warum?
Oh God, those clouds of evil, and the battlefield burns.
My eyes were full of tears, but I didn't feel the pain.
I felt someone caressed me, and the birds began to sing a dreamlike melody.
And the sun began to shine again for the last time for me.
